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Director, National Account Medical Outcomes Specialist | Pfizer

2017 SPEAKERS INCLUDE

Dr. M. Javad Aman is a molecular immunologist with over 20 years of experience in the field of vaccine and immunotherapeutics development for infectious diseases. Dr. Aman received his Ph.D. at the University of Mainz in Germany and completed two post-doctoral fellowships at NIH and University of...

Hooman Hefzi, Systems Biochemistry and Cell Engineering, U.C.S.D.

Hooman is a 6th year Ph.D. candidate in the Systems Biochemistry and Cell Engineering lab of Dr. Nathan Lewis at UC San Diego. His research focuses on integrating multiomic datasets to understand Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell behavior for applications in cell line engineering and optimal...

Juliane Merz studied Bioengineering at the TU Dortmund University and finished her studies in 2008. Her Ph.D. thesis dealing with the separation of enzymes using foam fractionation was finished in July 2012. Since then she is heading the "Innovative downstream processes"-group at the...

Matt Cooper, Business Development and Marketing Director, NIHR Clinical Research Network

The National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Network is the research delivery arm of the NHS. It invests some £300m each year into an infrastructure of specially-trained clinical research nurses and other clinical professionals across England, to support rapid study set-up and...

Susan Sharfstein, Associate Professor, S.U.N.Y. Polytechnic Institute

Susan Sharfstein received her B.S. in chemical engineering with honors from Caltech in 1987 and her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from UC Berkeley in 1993, receiving graduate fellowships from the university and the National Science Foundation. She received a National Institutes of Health...

Scott Tenenbaum, Associate Professor of Nanobioscience, University of Albany S.U.N.Y.

Dr. Scott Tenenbaum is Associate Professor of Nanobioscience at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the SUNY-Polytechnic Institute. Previously, he served as the Acting Vice President for Research and Associate Head of the Nanobioscience Constellation at CNSE. He received his...

Leo Kirkovsky, Director,Clinical Assay Group, Pfizer

Dr. Kirkovsky is a Director in the La Jolla Clinical Assay Group at Pfizer. He received his PhD degree in Organic Chemistry from Moscow State University. His PhD work focused on the preclinical and clinical evaluations of antitumor drugs from the class of diazoketones. After completing a...

Jiayi Zhang, Manager of Process Engineer, Sanofi - Genzyme

Jiayi earned her phD in chemical engineering from Dartmouth college in NH, USA. She has an extensive experience in process development/commercial manufacturing supporting for microbe and mammalian cell platform. She currently holds a position as Manager, Process Development/Engineering, in Sanofi ...

Jim McKay, Director, Clinical Development and Medical Affairs, Sandoz

Jim joined Sandoz in 2013 where he serves as Director of Clinical Development and Medical Affairs. He has more than ten years of pharmaceutical industry experience and has held a variety of positions involved in clinical research and medical education. At Sandoz, he supports biosimilar clinical...

Dr Zachary Shriver, VP, Research, Visterra Inc.

Zach Shriver has over 12 years of experience in the biotechnology industry and joined Visterra in 2009 as Vice President of Research. Previously, Dr. Shriver was one of the founding scientists at Momenta Pharmaceuticals and served as its Senior Director of Research Analytics. While at...

David Wood, Associate Professor of Chemical and Bio molecular Engineer, The Ohio State University

David Wood is an Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at The Ohio State University. He received his undergraduate degree from Caltech in 1990 with a double major in Chemical Engineering and Molecular Biology, and has worked in commodity-scale fermentation development at CP...

My academic foundation is in Biomedical Research, since my PhD (National University of Mexico) I have focused on the computational modeling of protein folding and function. I completed my first postdoc at the Hong Kong University of Science and technology under the supervision of Professor Xuhui...

Dr Alessandro Butte, Lecturer, ETH Zurich

Alessandro Butté received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 2000 from ETH Zurich. After a two-year post-doc at the Georgia Institute of Technology, he join the group of Prof. Morbidelli at ETH Zurich and completed his habilitation in 2008. During this period, his research activities focused on...

John Schiel, Research Chemist, National Institute of Standards & Technology

Dr. Schiel received his BS (2004) and Ph.D. (2009) in chemistry from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and is currently a research chemist in the NIST Biomolecular Measurement Division. Dr. Schiel coordinates the development of Reference Materials that support the biomanufacturing...

Dr Elmira Jalilian is a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School. Prior to this, Elmira did her Ph.D. in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at University College London (UCL), UK.
In her Ph.D. thesis, she studied the generation and characterization of iPSC-derived Endothelial Progenitor ...

Martin Kane, Managing Data Scientist, Exponent

Mr. Kane is Managing Data Scientist in the Statistical and Data Sciences Practice of Exponent. In his more than four years at Exponent, he has provided proactive (R&D and Quality) consulting services in the fields of biopharmaceuticals, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and industrial design...

Nobel Vale, Research Scientist II, Bristol Myers Squibb

Nobel Vale is a Research Scientist at Bristol-Myers Squibb since 2012. He was part of the upstream process development group and responsible for optimizing cell culture bioreactor processes to increase productivity. He transitioned internally to the Innovative Process Analytical Sciences (iPAS)...

Dr Win-Yan Chan, Research Scientist, UCB

Win-Yan joined as a Research Scientist in the Core Antibody Discovery group at UCB after completing her PhD at University College London (2016). During her PhD, Win-Yan developed and characterised a novel vaccine targeting Streptococcus pneumoniae in collaboration with ImmunoBiology, a biotech in...

Cindy Cao, Executive Director & Head of US Regulatory Affairs for Biopharmaceuticals, Sandoz

Dr. Cindy Cao is the Head of US Regulatory Affairs, Sandoz Biopharmaceutical, a Novartis Division. She oversees the Sandoz US regulatory affair biopharm department for all US regulatory activities to support the Sandoz Biosimilar development and commercialization. Dr. Cao provides regulatory...

Eleonora Ford, Director, Regulatory Affairs and R&D Policy, Amgen

Dr. Eleonora Ford currently serves as a Director of Global Regulatory and R&D Policy at Amgen, with a focus on the United States. She joined Amgen in 2005, where she spent over ten years in Global Scientific Communications, Global Scientific Affairs leading Payer, Value & Formulary and...